"It is not how a picture is painted that matters," says Painter William Robinson Leigh, "it is what you paint." Tall, lean and full of such old-fashioned convictions, Artist Leigh, at 86, knows just what he likes to paint. Says he: "Never in the whole of human history at any time or anywhere has there been a terrain more suitable for the making of pictures and telling of stories than our own West." On display this week in a Manhattan gallery is a retrospective show of Leigh's Wild West pictures, which prove him a first-rate practitioner of the Western school made...
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